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The Andrews Government will enable conventional drilling for gas reserves from July 2021.

Premier Daniel Andrews said the new gas supplies would be reserved for Victorian households and businesses first and companies that wanted to drill for gas on private land would have to strike agreements with landholders.

The announcement came after a three-year investigation by the Victorian Gas Program, overseen by Victoria’s lead scientist Amanda Caples, found there were gas reserves in Victoria that could be extracted without harming the environment.

But a temporary ban on fracking and coal seam gas will be made permanent.